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[Company Release] SSE's Fairburn wind farm near Inverness boosted the UK's economy by Pound12.4m, a new study has found.
The report was conducted by accountancy firm PwC, and commissioned by SSE, to evaluate its economic impact on the UK economy.
It found that SSE delivered Pound9.1bn to the UK economy last year, similar in scale to the financial impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Fairburn wind farm was chosen as a case study to highlight within the context of SSE's overall economic activity in both Scotland and the UK.
It found that, during construction in 2009, despite there being no UK based wind turbine supplier at the time, SSE still managed to keep...